Their latest cigarette advertising carries no warnings regarding the danger of cigarette smoking.
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15 USC CHAPTER 36
CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING
01/07/2011
-STATUTE- (click here) It is the policy of the Congress, and the purpose of this hapter, to establish a comprehensive Federal Program to deal with cigarette labeling and advertising with respect to any relationship between smoking and health, whereby -
(1) the public may be adequately informed about any adverse health effects of cigarette smoking by inclusion of warning notices on each package of cigarettes and in each advertisemen of cigarettes; and
(2) commerce and the national economy may be (A) protected to the maximum extent consistent with this declared policy and (B) not impeded by diverse, nonuniform, and confusing cigarette labeling and advertising regulations with respect to any relationship between smoking and health.
Anyone watching the video knows full well what the ad is all about. It shows a man engaged in discussing politics to the viewer with a 'glamour' shot when he takes a drag on a cancer stick. There is absolutley no statement regarding the dangers of cigarettes and it is in a video, not print. Their campaign is in violation of the law. They did it to pander to the tobacco cronies left to actually pander to.
The ad should read "Balls."
-CITE-
15 USC CHAPTER 36
CIGARETTE LABELING AND ADVERTISING
01/07/2011
-STATUTE- (click here) It is the policy of the Congress, and the purpose of this hapter, to establish a comprehensive Federal Program to deal with cigarette labeling and advertising with respect to any relationship between smoking and health, whereby -
(1) the public may be adequately informed about any adverse health effects of cigarette smoking by inclusion of warning notices on each package of cigarettes and in each advertisemen of cigarettes; and
(2) commerce and the national economy may be (A) protected to the maximum extent consistent with this declared policy and (B) not impeded by diverse, nonuniform, and confusing cigarette labeling and advertising regulations with respect to any relationship between smoking and health.
Anyone watching the video knows full well what the ad is all about. It shows a man engaged in discussing politics to the viewer with a 'glamour' shot when he takes a drag on a cancer stick. There is absolutley no statement regarding the dangers of cigarettes and it is in a video, not print. Their campaign is in violation of the law. They did it to pander to the tobacco cronies left to actually pander to.
The ad should read "Balls."
